“Pubs are huge in telling the story of 10 Barrel. When we expanded into Denver earlier this year we experienced for ourselves first-hand what an amazing craft-beer city it is and knew the next step was to build a pub there,” 10 Barrel tells Westword in a statement. “We’re super-stoked to announce we’ll start building shortly and that we will be brewing in Denver in the first half of 2016. We’ll share more details in the new year.”

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Casselman's hasn't announced that it is closing, however, and co-founder Andrew Ranes didn't return messages seeking comment.

If the location is correct, it means that both AB InBev and Coors will own companies that are opening breweries in Denver's River North district next year. Coors subsidiary Blue Moon has announced that it will open a 27,000-square-foot brewery and restaurant at 1910 38th Street. RiNo is becoming renowned for the plethora of craft breweries located there.

Last May, 10 Barrel began distributing its beer outside of the Pacific Northwest for the first time, beginning with Denver, thanks to help from AB InBev. At the time, Chris Cox told Westword that he and his partners decided to sell because running the brewery was beginning to take a toll. “We got into this business to drink beer and to have fun. If there was a big powder day, we close down and go skiing,” he explained then. “If it's 90 degrees, we go to the river. But as we got larger, there were fewer of those days. We were stuck ordering hops and ordering glassware, and that's not the reason we got into this.”

Since then, AB InBev has filed paperwork with the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which monitors brewery labels and licensing, that allows it to brew some of 10 Barrel's beers at its large facility near Fort Collins.

Jonathan Shikes is a Denver native who writes about business and beer for Westword.